My Funny Picture - what animal is this?

what animal is this?

i found some sort of arachnid near our pool today, and it looked weird so i took a couple pictures it looked like: -6 black legs -grey head and middle -red, black, and white patterned back -2 black, orange tipped antennaes message me with your email if you want any pictures of it~~ alright my bad its not an arachnid but the back is the large and colored part, the legs come from the uh. abdomen? which is grey-white once again--message me with your email to see the pictures of the bug

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it would have 8 legs if it were a true arachnid. some kind or weird beetle or something i bet
RUN AWAY!!!!! RUN AWAY!!!
omgee i wanna see it.
If it has six legs and antennae, it's definitely not an arachnid. I would guess that it might be some kind of beetle. If it has really long legs it might even be from a group known as spider beetles. However, I can't be certain without seeing a pictures. UPDATE: My e-mail's haysoos2@yahoo.com, if you want to send me a picture. More Updates: The picture you sent was the nymph of a type of assassin bug known as a wheel bug. Here's some pages with more info about wheel bugs: http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek030901.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_bug http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/factsheets/wheelbug.html http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/O&T/shrubs/note65/note65.html
arachnids have 8 legs and no antenae and a head and cephlathorax, so its an insect of some sort, my email= mrclean_cheon@yahoo.com